On Mon, 5 May 2003, Bob Krus wrote:
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> We are doing a conversion from HP3000 to an Intel based system
> running Unix & will need an RDMBS. The DB will function as a data
> server for our core of COBOL programs. I am not a database guy
> but am trying to research this issue & determine whether PostgreSQL
> will satisfy our needs & get at least some idea of how it might work.
> It seems that the best way for COBOL to communicate with the DB
> would be embedded code but it does not appear that PSQL supports this.
> Though this will not be a browser based system, ODBC probably would
> work. Would this be as fast as embedded code using Oracle, DB2 or???
>
> Thanks for any insight you may be able to provide.
I refer you to this article from a month or so ago:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-04/msg00059.php
According to him, his flavor of Cobol is converting from embedded SQL to
ODBC automagically.
